EMERGENCY CONGRESS 2015: TIME FOR NUGS TO CHOOSE A LEADER

By: Charles McCarthy(0553002776)

Dear Reader, I ended last weekend with an insight about the vision that Boye William has for National Union of Ghana Students  if elected as the President of NUGS,  my mobile phone was bombarded with series of calls and SMS from former officials of SRC and students who have already graduated many years ago and undergraduates from various campuses studying both at Home and in the Diaspora; the feedbacks has really shown the level of importance the students attach to their umbrella body called NUGS.

Today, the man of the moment is Boye William of University of Professional Studies Accra, he's a veteran Comrade that has spent several times following the activities as well as serving the students organ, and the first time he was Accra Academy SRC President and president of Greater Accra Regional SRC.

Now I ask, what shall it benefit someone in SRC that her contemporary almost became graduates of the college, maybe he has forgotten something so special in SRC.

However, from what I am seeing, PK has already lost touch with the reality of life in NUGS, I have said it before that I am not a student of history but a custodian of history, as such, Paa Kwesi cannot be allowed to contest even if he does he will definitely loss out based on the fact that the President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) about to hand over is coming from the same tock.  As enshrined in the tradition of NUGS, this is time for the other bloc to produce the next President of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS).

I wonder why someone that has contested for NUGS Presidency twice and lost out in two attempts still doing in the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) instead of playing advisory role, the last time I met PK in Jasikan, the capital town of Jasikan District with one of the Presidential Aspirant then from NUGS "Please, don't discussed issues of NUGS with me because, I am no more a Student, in fact, I have moved on" he said. I don't know if I am still dreaming to see the same PK contesting for NUGS Presidency.

It is on records that I was able to get a clear-cut policy and direction thrust of leadership from Boye William. But I was unable to get any from PK up to this moment, as I write. This, in my opinion, is not the best approach or way for someone that intends to lead a union of intellectual minded young people.

While I blame the former student leaders for not making the NUGS Constitution and Charter of Demands available to the young people aspiring to lead NUGS because most of them have never seen NUGS constitution and charter of demands in their life and they want to aspire. May be it is because they are not close to the POWERS that be in NUGS but some of us are fortunate enough to have a COPY.

Conclusively, I want to state without fear of intimidation or favour that Paa Kwesi should have a rethink and reconsider his position and step aside honourably in order to give the younger generation the chance to test their popularity across the Ghana. How can he the oldest of all be preaching renaissance, when he was part of the generational failure? Where the energy is the synergy? Why hasn’t he cooperated?

ONE MORE THING

As a matter of fact NUGS under the dexterity leadership of Comrade Boye William will restore the hope of the Ghanaian Students based on his "Operation Reinstate All The Politically Victimized Students and Activists in Ghana", the information available before me has clearly shown that he has started talking to the leadership of other student bodies in an attempt to bring all of them under one single umbrella apart from the empowerment scheme, indeed Boye is consolidating on his "NUGS MUST WORK AGAIN" campaign. 

Under Boye, the intellectual capacity of NUGS as an organization would be exalted, so that the various structures of the union- state joint committee and students’ unions now have requisite intellectual wherewithal to lead successful and genuine struggles to protect the interest of an ordinary students.

Ghanaian Students for that matter Delegates cannot forget in hurry the recent struggle for the reduction of Academic Facility User Fee (AFUF), the National Service online registration fee and the attempt to revise in the anti-residential policies. Despite the fact that I have my own disagreement with President Prosper, but I must give him kudos for this singular feat for opposing the UPSA Declaration; a position that has since put him against his king makers. We cannot forget the nationwide disconnecting of schools and colleges in the country. Our tertiary institutions keep increasing the cost of same sets of admission forms. The criteria for selecting applicants still remain a misery. In fact NUGS needs to really work again to restore smiles on the faces of its teaming members.